The hands of a cascade high school track team member forced to crawl around the school's track as punishment

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A school district that suspended four coaches for punishing track team members by making them "bear crawl" for up to a mile may have gone too far in its discipline, too, according to one of the students involved in the incident.

This is not the first time officials of Mill Creek Schools Corp. in Hendricks County have been accused of responding too quickly and harshly.

The latest controversy erupted this week after coaches of the boys and girls track teams at Cascade High School disciplined team members who had skipped an April 26 practice by making them do laps of the track hunched over on their ...